Publisher: Black Cat Weekly
When food journalist Naomi travels home to the U.S. Virgin Islands for a wedding, an old friend talks her into investigating some supposedly stolen recipes worth a lot of dough—and so much more.
Shipwrecked. Hunted. Forced to become prey—or die. When big-game hunter Rainsford falls from a yacht onto a remote island, he expects danger from wild animals. Instead, he encounters the chilling General Zaroff, a man who hunts the most dangerous quarry of all: humans. What follows is a relentless battle of wits, courage, and survival where every step could mean death. Acclaimed as "one of the greatest suspense stories ever written," this classic short story delivers nonstop tension, sharp moral questions, and a twist that has shocked readers for generations. Its lean pacing and psychological intensity make it impossible to put down. If you love survival thrillers, high-stakes mind games, and stories that test the limits of humanity, this unforgettable classic will keep your heart racing. Open the book—and enter a hunt where only the clever survive.Show book
Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window. The beggar is arrested, but a few days later St. Clair's wife receives a letter from her husband. Holmes concludes, then proves, that the beggar is actually St. Clair in disguise; he confesse that he has been leading a double life as a beggar, making more money that way than in his nominal work.Show book
Secrets hide in the Druid's Grove, in a murderer's heart, and in Niall Kier's past . . . October 1851. After millions of visitors and months of success, the Great Exhibition is winding down. Mr. Niall Kier and Miss Kara Levett are busy with the celebrations planned for the last weeks—and with all the commissions their involvement has brought them. Their artistic works stall, though, when the closing ceremonies are interrupted by a murder. Suddenly, a friend is under suspicion and the murder has been linked to the Druid's Grove, the secret society in which Niall is a member and Kara has just been inducted. They dive in, hoping to quickly clear their ally's name, except nothing is simple in the Grove and no one is exactly who they seem to be. Niall and Kara put their talents and resources to work once more, but they find that old, sinister secrets might be behind the present-day bloodshed. And as they investigate, it appears someone might also be digging about in Niall's mysterious past.Show book
Murder strikes again in the small town of Berry Cove. Dana Sweet, part time mystery riddles blogger who has inherited the Cozy Cupcakes Café from her late grandmother, is once again drawn into a strange murder with a bizarre twist. The Holiday spirit is in the air as the Mayor gets ready to host Berry Cove’s Annual Christmas Banquet, but when the notorious town gossip columnist Shags Morefield is found dead holding a raspberry filled cupcake from the Cozy Cupcakes Café, all fingers point to Dana’s cousin Katie who’d been the recent subject of her local gossip. Will Dana be able to figure out who’s trying to frame her cousin in time? A Dana Sweet Cozy Mystery series: Strawberry Cream Cupcake & Murder (Book 1) Blueberry Cream Cupcake & Murder (Book 2) Chocolate Cream Cupcake & Murder (Book 3) Strawberry Meringue Cupcake & Murder (Book 3.5) Vanilla Cream Cupcake & Murder (Book 4) Holiday Cream Cupcake & Murder (Book 5) Valentine’s Cream Cupcake & Murder (Book 6) Buttercream Cupcake & Murder (Book 7) Coconut Cream Cupcake & Murder (Book 8) Cherry Cream Cupcake & Murder (Book 9) Chocolate Chip Cupcake & Murder (Book 10)Show book
I’ve come a long way since inheriting my Aunt Elizabeth’s Tarpon Cove house and her beach cottages full of quirky residents. I strap a Glock to my thigh as easily as I slip into flip–flops. Even Fab is going legit . . . mostly. When she’s hired to investigate some high–end boat thefts in Biscayne Bay, I go along to do what I do best. Chat up the help to get the real story. Neither of us expected the case to explode—literally—and take out one of Miami’s richest men. And possibly a mistress, though no one’s found her body floating among the bits and pieces. Somewhere in the Miami upper–crust’s phony smiles and even phonier alibis, there’s someone who wanted to see Marshall Sacks dead. Someone willing to ruin Fab’s and my lives to keep their secret. It’ll take calling in every favor I’m owed to keep us out of trouble.Show book
A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence to be expected from the author of The Four Feathers, the tale begins with a dangerous youth who sat in the stocks, and a girl named Helen, and a gang of men watching a granite house at the edge of the sea. NOTE: Contains some language that would be considered offensive to the modern ear. (Christine Dufour)Show book
